Sentence examples for thoroughly strip from inspiring English sources

Maybe that's the platonic ideal of repurposing, though: to so thoroughly strip the borrowing of meaning that it no longer registers as borrowing but rather a seamless evocation of the original moment or thing, before history painted it one way or the other.

By now it's been thoroughly strip-mined and needs to be reinvented, not just rehashed and set to mediocre music.

The male-female workplace dynamic has been so thoroughly strip-mined that all you have to do these days is make a passing reference to it.

Lewis is thoroughly stripped of self, and throws in a Zen quote to explain her hollowness.

Yet the film is thoroughly stripped of the sniggering ironies that beset, and often wreck, the modern fright fest.

Thieves have so thoroughly stripped some neighborhoods on the city's north and southwest sides that some blocks look like slalom courses, dotted with orange cones to warn drivers and pedestrians of gaping holes, some nearly 30 feet deep.

He thought of spent quarries as inverted skyscrapers — evidence that matter had been shifted from one area to another — and his pictures were so thoroughly stripped of political motivation that it was hard to imagine them working in the service of either industry or environmentalism.

This seems even more of a challenge today, when the material directly related to Middle-earth appears to have been pretty thoroughly strip-mined.

I am not normally a profligate person--I save, I invest, I understand the sedimentary ecstasies of compound interest--but when set loose in the poetry section of any bookstore on the planet I seem to encounter a version of myself that is thoroughly stripped of restraint.

Bone marrows were flushed out, and periostea were thoroughly stripped from bones before sampling to avoid contamination with muscles (Fig. 1A).

Immediately post mortem femoral bones were thoroughly stripped of soft tissue and were then snap frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -70°C until further use.